You would have to setup a try catch statement to catch when the exception occurs and see what the program can do to fix the issue, and if it can't you could possibly tell the user which program is causing the error and needs to be closed. Regards, Thomas Stockwell Programming today is a race between software engineers striving to build bigger and better idiot-proof programs, and the Universe trying to produce bigger and better idiots. So far, the Universe is winning. Visit my homepage Oracle Studios[^]

Search the artciles for the term "shell extension" and you should find some useful information. "Programming today is a race between software engineers striving to build bigger and better idiot-proof programs, and the Universe trying to produce bigger and better idiots. So far, the Universe is winning." - Rick Cook www.troschuetz.de

That's the regular behaviour you get in every text editor under windows that allows for formatted text. If you really want to do syntax highlighting in your RTB yourself (although there are several articles here on this topic), you should reconsider when to perform colorization. If you do it whenever the text is changed or when a key is pressed, then you'll find out that like + the letter you typed isn't a keyword anymore, so the whole word should be black. Regards, mav -- Black holes are the places where god divided by 0...

or RichTextBox.SelectionStart and RichTextBox.SelectionLength... If you just want to move the cursor, leave RichTextBox.SelectionLength = 0. Try code model generation tools at BoneSoft.com.

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COleDateTime is a MFC\ATL class and cannot be used in a idl file, you need to use DATE*.

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The following article may be useful: http://www.codeproject.com/com/mfc_autom.asp

use Gethostbyaddr

Hi bit AND used to check if source and destination IP is in a rang. S-IP 192.168.0.1 = 11000000.10101000.00000000.00000001 D-IP1 192.168.0.2 = 11000000.10101000.00000000.00000010 D-IP2 192.168.10.3 = 11000000.10101000.00001010.00000011 Mask 255.255.255.0 = 11111111.11111111.11111111.00000000 S-IP AND Mask = 11000000.10101000.00000000.00000000 D-IP1 AND Mask = 11000000.10101000.00000000.00000000 S-IP AND Mask = D-IP1 AND Mask S-IP AND Mask = 11000000.10101000.00000000.00000000 D-IP1 AND Mask = 11000000.10101000.00001010.00000000 S-IP AND Mask <> D-IP2 AND Mask Iman Ghasrfakhri

Radu Sorin wrote: I want to know how can I get programmaticaly this names . Can anyone help me? I'm not sure of an API or a function that will retrieve the names, but you might could find them under the HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\ControlSet001\Control\Network\{4D36E972-E325-11CE-BFC1-08002BE10318} key. "One must learn from the bite of the fire to leave it alone." - Native American Proverb